- Walter Cronkite, journalist, CBS Evening News anchor
- Clive Cussler, best-selling adventure novelist (Eagle Scout, Class of 1946)
- Brandon Mull, author of the children’s fantasy series Fablehaven (Eagle Scout, Class of 1993)
- Harrison Salisbury, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who covered the civil rights movement, Kennedy assassination and Vietnam War (Eagle Scout, Class of 1924)